Mailman to Discourse Migration

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It is possible to do what you are asking, but personally I don’t recommend it. Better to let people start topics on the forum and let others reply to it either by email or on the forum. I’d take a look at this FAQ topic:

Discourse vs Email & Mailing lists

Continuing the discussion from Discourse vs. email – Pros & Cons: Comments welcome! When should we use Discourse instead of plain email or a mailing list? Discourse excels at group conversations. Email is still great for 1-to-1 and 1-to-a-few exchanges. But when these conversations attract even more people and go on for a extended period of time, email chains become increasingly unwieldy. Mailing lists were invented to remedy these issues, but it was a bit like trying to build better horse…